Mobility
Functional mobility, one of the basic activities of daily living (ADL) in the fields of health care and rehabilitation.
Fitness and mobility are associated with barrier behaviors (i.e. encounters and avoidances) among individuals with tetraplegia, but not paraplegia. Despite a greater barrier avoidance rate, persons with tetraplegia do not perceive more physical barriers than persons with paraplegia. Surprisingly, fitness and mobility were not related to perception of barriers in either group. More research is required on if barrier perception, behavior, or both influence participation, to enable rehabilitation programs to tailor interventions to enhance participation 1).
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Callahan MK, Cowan RE. Relationship of fitness and wheelchair mobility with
encounters, avoidances, and perception of environmental barriers among manual
wheelchair users with Spinal Cord Injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2018 Jul 4. pii:
S0003-9993(18)30439-8. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.06.013. [Epub ahead of print]
PubMed PMID: 29981312.